I have posted an ebook on Smashwords.com and it is titled Your First Web Site: An Economical Solution for Small Businesses.

This ebook is posted as a “no fee” download.

I think this will really help a lot of people who have no idea about what it takes to get a web site on the internet. I think it will be invaluable for those people who want to start their own business and know they need to get on the net.

I fount directions to installing OpenOffice 3.2 on Ubuntu 9.10 at ubuntugeek.com.

These directions made life much easier.

I was searching around a few other places. I tried the update window, but that failed. It took 1 minute after I found UbuntuGeek.com.

I am still not overly confident with the terminal, but these directions sure did help.

Ubuntu doesn’t support update to OpenOffice anymore. That is a mistake.

As much as I hate Windows, at least they make downloading free software a snap. Cant take that away from them. Sure, Ubuntu has the Software Center, but if something isn’t in there (such as OO 3.2) then you are out of luck.

So I tried to install a plug-in to OpenOffice Writer that would allow me to draft in Writer and publish to my blog. Long story short, the plug-in didn’t install. On the Writer wiki, most everyone has not been able to install it.

Now to add insult to injury, I can publish directly from MS Word 2007 to my blog. That really bugs me because I want OpenOffice to be better than MS Office. (If I haven’t mentioned this, I’m a big fan of open source software).

The OpenOffice team is pretty savvy so I think they will rectify this problem in a future release (ideally it will be the next release).

But until then, I’m left with writing the post in gmail and publishing that way (note: when I use my Ubuntu computer, WordPress doesn’t like it – ugly things happen and the response is terrible; thus, writing in gmail is the best option).